The Maltese Falcon
Featuring the iconic detective Sam Spade, now on TV as Monsieur Spade
$18.42
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2005
Summary
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O Shaughnessy, and when Spade’s partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby’s trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780752865331 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0752865331 |
| Author: | Dashiell Hammett |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2005 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 133mm x 200mm |
| Series: | Murder Room |
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Critics Review
Dashiell Hammett’s crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carr
Dashiell Hammett’s crime thriller and its hard-boiled hero Sam Spade influenced everyone from Chandler to Le Carré … The Maltese Falcon is the Hammett novel that jumps from the pages of its genre and into literature * GUARDIAN *
His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow * INDEPENDENT *
One of the foremost practitioners of the hard-boiled detective story * THE SCOTSMAN *
The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction * NEW YORK TIMES *
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used – Raymond Chandler
He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer * BOSTON GLOBE *
The first fully “hard-boiled” hero in American letters * NEW YORKER *
Dashiell Hammett
After working as a newsboy, freight clerk, labourer, messenger, stevedore, and advertising manager, Hammett became an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundation for his writing career. He died in 1961.
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